It’s a cloudy, gray Saturday morning in November and the Schexnayders are gathered in a shed on their farm in White Castle, watching sugar cane juice bubble away in a large, cast iron cauldron. The ...
The fire driving Mark Guenther's 33-year-old locomotive boiler raged outside his steam-filled production room. Making sorghum syrup is not cool work, even on the first day the Monterey, Tenn. heat had ...